Where does “truthfulness” come from?
Truthfulness comes from English truth plus the Old English suffix -nes, from Proto-Germanic triwwiþō meaning faith or loyalty, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European drū- and pleh₁-.
truthfulness (English): The quality of being truthful
Definitions
- The quality of being truthful
Ancestry of “truthfulness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | truthful | Honest, and always telling the truth; Accurately... |
| 2 | English | truth | True facts, genuine depiction or statements of... |
| 3 | Middle English | troute | trout certain fish of the genus |
| 4 | Old English | truht | trout |
| 5 | Old French | truite | — |
| 6 | Latin | tructa | a kind of trout |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | τρώκτης | gnawer, nibbler; greedy knave; kind of fish with... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -τής | Appended to verbs to form agent nouns |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | πεῖρα | trial, experiment, attempt |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |